On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Joel Weinberger <jww@chromium.org> wrote: > Not to add too much fuel to the fire here, but what if, for cleanliness, > the spec did not allow *any* IP address, but did specify that user agents > treat a src of localhost as equivalent to 127.0.0.1 and ::1? > If we decide to restrict IP addresses, that seems like a fine way of doing it. For me, the question is whether the window has already closed in which we could have created such a restriction. Given that we've been shipping with IPv4 support for ~2 years, it wouldn't surprise me if applications had come to depend in one way or another on the behavior. As I mentioned in an earlier email, data would help here. -mike -- Mike West <mkwst@google.com>, @mikewest Google Germany GmbH, Dienerstrasse 12, 80331 München, Germany, Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg, Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Christine Elizabeth Flores (Sorry; I'm legally required to add this exciting detail to emails. Bleh.)
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